ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Hilariously, the Royal Meteorological society chooses to keep this 85 year old article, one of the earliest studies of human-caused climate change, behind a paywall. Find it on @scihub

https://spore.social/@ed_hawkins@fediscience.org/110145986006405198

1930: Unnecessary systemic poverty, widespread radicalization, division and hatred.

2024: Unnecessary systemic poverty, widespread radicalization, division and hatred. Plus: 3,000,000,000+ #bullshitjobs and a collapsing biosphere. Thanks to systemic poverty.

#progress

"There is a sense that however profound the climate crisis challenges might be, the stakes are not yet urgent enough to warrant drastic action. "

#davos #climate #PostcardsFromTheAnthropocene

Argonaut does not exist #TerranTradeAuthority #AIArt #midjourney

The Great Dick brand can always be trusted for quality and wholesomeness.

"They'll pretend they always loved you after they kill you." (quoting a person on a social media)

Always wanted one of these

https://www.europesays.com/1000142/ The absurd claim that DEI programs caused Boeing’s failure is similar to the scam conservative talk radio pulls on working people – deflecting blame on bad working conditions away from the greedy corporations by blaming “wokeness”, immigrants, etc. #Economy

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"He [Dionysos] was accompanied [...] by a personal attendant and caretaker, Seilenos, who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of Dionysos."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3

🏛 #Dionysos and a #Maenad with #Silenos, red-figure vase painting dated 360-350 BCE

@antiquidons @archaeodons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology

𝓖𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓼𝓪𝓻𝔂

Blockchain: a slow database

Crypto: an expensive slow database

NFT: an expensive slow database to store URLs

AI: a way to write slow and inefficient algorithms

LLM: a database that stores text in a slow and inefficient way

Chat GPT: an expensive imprecise query language for slow and inefficient text databases that often returns wrong results

It’s Caturday 🐈‍⬛🐈

Traveling from the US to a jurisdiction with real privacy laws is instructive. Visiting some of the same web sites I always visit, after clicking through a “manage cookies" banner from one (US) web site I saw this. Folks, I’m more than casually knowledgeable about privacy; it's one of my research areas and I write about it, and even I was shocked at the number of (I assume potential) partners in this pop-up, to say nothing of the cookie types that couldn't be disabled.

Finished "The Woman in Me" by Britney Spears. ⭐⭐⭐

This is a rough book. It's tough to believe that Britney endured all that was thrown at her. But I suppose this is the nature of abuse; it's a dynamic of the abuser's behavior and the abused's inability to find a way out.

I hope this encourages more victims to take action. And I hate that the onus is on them, as they don't deserve what's happening to them, but that's the only way things are going to improve.

#bookstodon

Anna’s hummingbird

Fog + frost = some pretty interesting ice!

9 year old is into mythical epics. She knows Beowulf. Got her a kids Iliad, Odyssey, and Ramayana. What else?